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<br>Dear colleagues,
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<br>we are happy to share with you further updates on the "Long now of the
<br>Commons" event, with sign-up link, info on talks and speakers!
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<br>Feel free to circulate it among your networks.
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<br>Best regards,
<br>Giacomo Poderi and Joanna Saad-Sulonen
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<br>/*The Long Now of the Commons - People, Infrastructures, and Dilemmas
<br>*/https://en.itu.dk/about-itu/calendar/events/2019/the-long-now-of-the-commons--people-infrastructures-and-dilemmas
<br>17th October, 9.00-16.30
<br>IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, Copenhaghen
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<br>Over the past few decades, concerns around the future of the commons –
<br>meaning collectively managed resources endangered by different forms of
<br>enclosures – have opened up inquiries into promoting fairer and more
<br>sustainable ways of being and acting together in the world.
<br>
<br>Commoning – the social practice of managing resources for everyone’s
<br>benefit – promotes ways of resisting and creating alternatives to the
<br>inequalities, contradictions, and threats of contemporary neoliberal
<br>western societies. Concrete examples of commoning abound in any human
<br>sphere: from the re-appropriation of urban spaces (e.g. through social
<br>housing, hackerspaces, urban gardening) to the nurturing of open digital
<br>spaces and infrastructures (e.g. commons-based peer production, creative
<br>commons); from environmental care (e.g. environmentalist collectives,
<br>energy saving communities) to political actions for (re)democratizing
<br>the economy and the society (e.g. platform cooperativism, anarchist
<br>commons).
<br>
<br>In a historical moment of renewed political, social, cultural, and
<br>economic turmoil, it is increasingly important to sustain and
<br>consolidate practices of commoning, despite the challenges at hand. By
<br>acknowledging that "there is no commons without commoning" (Linebaugh,
<br>2009), this event aims to disseminate knowledge about contemporary forms
<br>of commoning as historically, culturally, and politically situated
<br>practices. As such, the people, infrastructures, and dilemmas involved
<br>in commoning will be at the center of this full-day public seminar. The
<br>event will gather contributions by internationally renowned researchers
<br>and practitioners who have developed considerable experience on the
<br>topic over the past years.
<br>
<br>The day will be structured around presentations with ample space for
<br>comments and questions from the audience. Students, researchers,
<br>practitioners, and policy makers interested in the topic are invited and
<br>welcome to attend the event. 
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<br>    SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS
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<br>  * Ferreri, Mara - University of Northumbria./Commoning for housing
<br>    justice. /
<br>  * ////Garcia, Marcos - Medialab Prado, Madrid./Citizen labs as commons
<br>    laboratories. Local and international approaches. /
<br>  * Helfrich, Silke - Founding member of Commons Strategies Group./Free,
<br>    Fair and Alive: The Power of the Commons. /
<br>  * O’Neil, Mathieu - University of Canberra./Mapping the firm-project
<br>    network. /
<br>  * Pazaitis, Alex - Tallinn University of Technology. /Peer Production
<br>    and State Theory: Envisioning a Cooperative Partner State. /
<br>  * Poderi, Giacomo - IT University of Copenhagen./Caring about the
<br>    commoners who care. /
<br>  * Seravalli, Anna - Malmö University./Urban commons: towards more
<br>    democratic cities? /
<br>  * Teli, Maurizio - Aalborg University. /Commoning and Participatory
<br>    Design – a Love Story? /
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<br>
<br>    ATTENDANCE AND ORGANIZATION
<br>
<br>Attendance is free and open to everyone. To help with the
<br>logistic, *please* *sign up here*: https://commoning.eventbrite.com/
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<br>Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2487897747974542/
<br>
<br>The event is organized by Giacomo Poderi (Department of Computer
<br>Science, IT University of Copenhagen) and Joanna Saad-Sulonen
<br>(Department of Digital Design, IT University of Copenhagen), and it is
<br>funded through the project grant 749353, of the H2020/MSCA-IF-2016 call.
<br>The event is hosted by the IT University of Copenhagen.
<br>
<br>
<br>    ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
<br>
<br>*/ALEX PAZAITIS/*is a core member of the interdisciplinary research
<br>collective P2P Lab, spin-off of the Ragnar Nurkse Department of
<br>Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology and of the
<br>P2P Foundation. He holds an MA in Technology Governance and is Junior
<br>Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Ragnar Nurkse Department. Alex
<br>is a core team member of the COSMOLOCALISM project and has been involved
<br>in numerous research activities, including scholarly papers and research
<br>and innovation projects. He has professional experience in project
<br>management and has worked as a consultant for private and public
<br>organizations. His research interests include technology governance;
<br>innovation policy; digital commons; open cooperativism and distributed
<br>ledger technologies.
<br>
<br>*/ANNA SERAVALLI /*is a senior lecturer and design researcher at The
<br>School of Arts and Communication Malmö University. She has a background
<br>as product and service designer and holds a PhD in Design and Social
<br>Innovation. Her research explores questions around alternative
<br>economics, participation and democracy in the urban context. She closely
<br>collaborates with citizens, NGOs, civil servants and small entrepreneurs
<br>in exploring new modes of production, participation and decision making
<br>in urban production and city making. She is the coordinator of Malmö
<br>University DESIS Lab.
<br>
<br>*/GIACOMO PODERI/*is a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher at the IT
<br>University of Copenhagen. His current project focuses on the
<br>sustainability of different commoning practices (e.g. urban, digital,
<br>knowledge commons) and takes particular interest at commoners’ long-term
<br>commitment. His research interests concern the interplay between society
<br>and Information and Communication Technology through the lenses of
<br>co-construction and participatory processes. More concretely, he is
<br>interested in the role that participation plays in mediating use,
<br>design, and development aspects of ICT. His latest publication is
<br>"Sustaining platforms as commons” in /CoDesign/ 15(3).
<br>
<br>*/MARA FERRERI/*is research fellow in Human Geography at the University
<br>of Northumbria. Until recently she held a Marie Curie postdoctoral
<br>fellowship at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (see:
<br>http://commoninghousing.net/). Her work on urban precarity, commons,
<br>housing and temporariness has been published in international journals
<br>such as /Transactions of the IBG, cultural geographies /and /Geoforum/.
<br>She is a founding editor of the open-access international /Radical
<br>Housing Journal /.
<br>
<br>*/MARCOS GARCÍA/*is the artistic director of Medialab-Prado since 2014,
<br>an initiative of the Madrid City Hall, devised as a citizen laboratory
<br>for the production, research and dissemination of cultural projects that
<br>explores forms of experimentation and collaborative learning that have
<br>emerged with digital networks.From 2006 to 2013, he was in charge of
<br>coordination and programming at Medialab-Prado, alongside Laura
<br>Fernández. Previously, from 2004 to 2006, they set up the education
<br>programme of MediaLabMadrid, developing the cultural mediation programme
<br>and the Interactivos? project, a platform for production and research
<br>into the creative and educational applications of technology. Marcos has
<br>taken part in numerous international events about digital culture and
<br>the commons.
<br>
<br>*/MATHIEU O’NEIL/*is Associate Professor in Communication at the
<br>University of Canberra and Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of
<br>Sociology at the ANU. His interests are the sociology of fields and
<br>controversies, social network analysis, and labour and organization
<br>studies. He is currently investigating waged and volunteer labour in
<br>F/OSS projects thanks to a grant from the Sloan Foundation. Mathieu’s
<br>research has been published in Social Networks, Information,
<br>Communication and Society, Réseaux, and Organization Studies, amongst
<br>others. In 2006 he contributed to the founding of the Virtual
<br>Observatory for the Study of Online Networks, a world leader in e-social
<br>science, and in 2010 he founded the /Journal of Peer Production/.
<br>
<br>*/MAURIZIO TELI/*is Associate Professor at the Department of Planning,
<br>Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on participatory
<br>design and commoning in relation to digital platforms. He has more than
<br>fifty publications, including the book “/Beyond Capital: Values,
<br>Commons, Computing and the Search for a Viable Future”/ (co-authored
<br>with David Hakken and Barbara Andrews, Routledge, 2016) and the
<br>co-edited special issue of CoDesign - International Journal of
<br>CoCreation in Design and the Arts “/Repositioning CoDesign in the age of
<br>platform capitalism: from sharing to caring” /(with Gabriela Avram, Jaz
<br>Hee-jeong Choi, Stefano De Paoli, Ann Light, and Peter Lyle, 2019).
<br>
<br>*/SILKE HELFRICH/*is an independent activist, author, scholar, and
<br>speaker. She cofounded the Commons Strategies Group and
<br>Commons-Institute, was former head of the regional office of Heinrich
<br>Böll Foundation for Central America, Cuba, and Mexico, and holds degrees
<br>in Romance languages/pedagogy and in social sciences. Helfrich is the
<br>editor and co-author of several books on the Commons, and she blogs at
<br>www.commons.blog . She lives in Neudenau,
<br>Germany.
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